Lady Patricia is an incredible engine, and I bet she's awesome to see in person, but I have to say it does feel a bit like looking at a zoo animal in a tiny enclosure. She needs space to run around and really show off what she can do!

@ladela7348

11 ай бұрын

Unfortunately this is basically the only place she can run as there's no other 5ft lines in the UK, and even if she were converted to 4ft8.5in she'd be too big for our loading gauge so she wouldn't fit under tunnels and bridges and past platforms.

@roseroserose588

11 ай бұрын

@@ladela7348 Yes it's a real shame, hopefully one day she'll go back to europe and be able to stretch her legs again.

@Sohave

11 ай бұрын

I bet the dude who has the land would have loved to build a longer line but at the end of the day buying up property costs a lot of money. And as it is lacking a shed I guess there are more pressing priorities.

@16jan1986

11 ай бұрын

​@@ladela7348they had a Danish s class running on British rails for years....just made dual track into single track.... Unfortunately there are no running s class running anymore and only a slim perspective for one to run due to poor management of the Danish railroad museum.... Don't visit they scrap historical locos

@adriaandeleeuw8339

11 ай бұрын

@@ladela7348 is she five foot even or five foot three as per Irish Gauge because Victoria Australia has five foot 3 inch and a tradition of steam

When you tell your mum you want a garden railway, but you didn't say it would be a scale garden railway ;)

Flying Scotsman in the background. "Biggest steam loco in the UK" (casually adds a 2nd tender) "ah there we go".

@KianWesternRailway

2 ай бұрын

Yeah bet the 9f are bigger too

@KianWesternRailway

2 ай бұрын

Oh wait get what u mean

@KianWesternRailway

2 ай бұрын

Misread it

@TheSudrianTerrier653

2 ай бұрын

Meanwhile the Chinese KF in York:

@the_retag

Ай бұрын

Broad gauge means ita all a little bigger even if the design doesn't look like ot

Looks like it was a fantastic day, I'm curious about how many private railways there actually are in the UK like this, running full size locos simply for the owner's pleasure.

@peteraustin3918

11 ай бұрын

The answer is not many. Discounting the better known ones such as Fawley Hill (Sir W McAlpine's place), there are probably a dozen actually operating. This does not include items of stock people have bought as extreme garden features...

@Studio23Media

11 ай бұрын

You'd have to be pretty wealthy to not only own enough land in the UK, but also to afford the track, the locomotive maintenance and refurbishment, and the crew to help you run things.

@trainswithnickyt

11 ай бұрын

@@Studio23Media oh absolutely, this is not something the average person could hope to attain. This is very much a rich person's toy

@TonyWony

11 ай бұрын

I thought car/motorbike collection was for the elite, omg this above elite, this on the money level of looking after jets and yacht!

@keplermission4947

11 ай бұрын

Steady ... you know at 11:00 Lawrie tells us that the Pacific gives us a chance to see just how massive it is compared with a ... wait for it ... "an English industrial." Wow, well if it was an English industrial that would be okay but he's just done telling us 'it's the oldest Andrew Barclay in preservation'. You know, Barclay from Kilmarnock in Scotland, it is uh ... a Scottish industrial. Which you know isn't exactly splitting hairs, Lawrie just assumed that you know, it must be English. British is the word I suppose.

American here. Ive alwyas admired the craftsmanship and details on british steam locos. Gorgeous looking engines

@gremio3293

3 ай бұрын

Agreed but I do believe that this one's Finnish

@jazzdub4958

25 күн бұрын

American vintage steam engines and that distinctive railroad styling were magnificent looking in the mid 19th century. Just check out the iconic locomotive named "Jupiter" from the 1860s.

It's absolutely surreal to see a Finnish locomotive in a British livery (and name) running over here, but amazing! Really gives you some idea of how huge _Lady Patricia_ is compared to most preserved steam locomotives you'll find in the UK.

@kiwitrainguy

5 ай бұрын

I'd like to see it alongside an LMS coronation, LNER A4 or a BR 9F.

Very nice - I was very lucky to be given a spirited cab ride of over 100 miles or so on the mainline aboard the sister locomotive 1009 in Finland back in 2016. I fully recommend at trip out there if you can. There are an amazing number of surving locos thanks to their strategic reserve policy and the Finns are wonderful people.

14:15 Train *Whistle* Captions (Music) Thank You

The owners are long time friends of my family and my husband and I had the most memorable experience of a private “steam-up day”. I have ridden those magnificent engines, and indeed stood at the end of the track and filmed a parallel run. We ate sausages cooked on the coals of St Vincent. Lady Patricia is unbelievably huge, a gorgeous towering beauty, and one of my favorite pictures is of myself standing next to the wheels which are a lot bigger than me. It was wonderful re-visiting those memories through watching this video; so thank you. Of course our visit occurred during the restoration period of Lady P, and the steam-up was the very first time. Such a pleasure to see her in all her fully restored glory.

@MEMTC

11 ай бұрын

is this near shuttington. id only ever seen it from a distance

@nectafarious8842

9 ай бұрын

No. Near Windsor.

Now that’s what I call an engine

@sepur_lempung34official

11 ай бұрын

Indeed

Had the pleasure of a private steam up day at this amazing place. The owner and his wife were very freindly and treated my two children to an ice cream. will always remember that day

I knew this video was coming, I saw someone else's video of this line and you were driving that magnificent little traction engine. I also like that large green locomotive, it reminds me of the large locomotives that run here in the U.S.

@jamesmchenry4708

11 ай бұрын

...I think it might be around the same size as our local steam locomotive, the static display Rock Island 887. (which is portrayed as 886 because of a...clerical error, let's call it.)

@jonathanj8303

11 ай бұрын

Big because of the loading gauge, but not heavy, I think. Wikipedia quotes the weight including tender at 153 metric tonnes (171 US tons), but not the axleload. Max (rated) speed is given as 68mph (a reflection on the lines more than the engine, I suspect), but tractive effort is only about 85% of what the original 1920 GNR/LNER A1 had. I wouldn't be surprised to find it was built to a 17-18 tonne axle load or thereabouts, so much smaller than most US pacifics. Wikipedia also suggests that 16 of the 22 built are preserved, 9 of them in one village of 1,500 inhabitants, which might be a record.

Absolutely love Edwardian and Victorian British steam trains. Absolutely beautiful pieces of machinery and art.

w0wza, that must've been a thing. The _Lady Patricia_ is one of those machines that's a scale all its own -- you look at it and think, oh gee that's not too big, what's the fuss about... and then someone goes and stands beside it and it looks like they're a figure out of a Corgi Toys box! You need to go do a spot on _Sir Vincent_ sometime, though. That contraption is all kinds of mental and I absolutely love it! I've never seen a locomotive like that with a flywheel at the side, least of all one big enough that you could call it a small Ferris Wheel if you strapped a few plastic lawn chairs to it...

I was overjoyed to learn 1016 had been restored to operation. I've always been fascinated with railways all over the world, their operations, history, rolling stock etc, so seeing something different to what we're used to in the UK is always a joy to see. Keep up the good, Lawrie and the team. :3

As a one-time Scottish goods guard, I couldn't help noticing the brake van. I've never seen anything like it. It appeared to be a standard BR (or LNER) brake van body mounted on an ordinary short wheelbase wagon underframe. I've never seen an external lever hand brake on a brake van before. What's more the brake lever was where I'd expect to find the steps to climb into the van. I wouldn't like to try to get into it when it was moving (something that I used to do every day -- often several times a day). I'd have liked to have seen inside the vanto see if it actually has an internal wheel operated hand brake inside, or if the external lever is its only brake. On the subject of brakes, I saw you frantically spinning a wheel round on Sir Vincent, I suppose to make it stop. Does Sir Vincent not have a steam brake? Fascinating video! I suppose I'm noticing things that only a former working railwayman would spot. :) I fondly remember the former Lochty Private Railway in Fife, which also had a fairly large locomotive (60009 Union of South Africa) "trapped" on a very short railway.

Despite being standard gauge, Swanscombe and Sir Vincent look so small that I'd have guessed they were narrow gauge locomotives.

That Sir Vincent is a whacky little machine! I know the flywheel is smooth, but the idea of running a hand rail so close to it is just madness by today's standards!

@derekp2674

11 ай бұрын

Not to mention all the exposed motion inside the cab!

@patrickwilliams6143

11 ай бұрын

That was my first reaction as well. I wonder how many fingers were lost back in the day? Was it just accepted as part of the job? Because I imagine operating that on a wet, cold and foggy morning and can't see a way I make it home without having undergone an amputation of some description or other!

@rivergladesgardenrailroad8834

6 ай бұрын

then one had to look after oneself, not have the nannie state do it for you, or you were lost...[or dead]

@kiwitrainguy

5 ай бұрын

CAUTION: THIS MACHINE HAS NO BRAIN, USE YOUR OWN!

This isnt a garden railway anymore this is a full blown heritage line. Its amazing that they have an actual (but slightly downscaled) steam engine worthy of something like the LNER or SR.

It's deceptive how large Lady Patricia is because everything is proportionally large with itself. Seeing it next to the Barclay did put it into perspective though.

I always knew that factually broad guage locomotives were bigger then standard (or Stephenson) guage ones, but I never saw footage of a Broadie running next to a standard engine. Yikes they are absolutely giant. Might even dwarf 4014 in some aspects. Thanks for the amazing content again lawrie! On another note, because of this video I decided to do some research into just how many broadies are currently in the UK, because I already knew Bressingham had a Finnish Tk3 2-8-0. What I found shocked me a little: There seem to have been roughly 15-20 Finnish broadies imported to the UK in the 90's, mostly via a now failed attraction in Acton, Suffolk. All engines seemed to be of classes Hr1 (4-6-2), Tr1 (exactly like Hr1 but 2-8-2), Tk3 (2-8-0) and Vr1 (0-6-0T). Well, like said earlier the attraction failed and the broadies were laid up en left to rust, although at some point a couple were taken over or brought somewhere else. It seems 4 went to the Ongar railway (Including 1016 of this video) and these seem to finally be put into better shape now after some time rusting away. One Vr1 has been placed infront of Blumsom lumber centre in London, although its in a quite bad shape, since it has no cover against the elements. But the rest are either gone, or going to be gone if they aren't preserved (again) soon. 3 were last seen at a place called Hope Farm near Sellinge in Kent, but that was 10 years ago and I can't locate the engines there on Google Maps so I fear the worst. 2 others are also considered lost (wether scrapped or not is unknown) and lastly there is 1 whose location I have been able to certify via maps. Tr1 1077 is still at Acton, located at the back of the industrial estate in a part of what seems to have belonged to a trucking company but nowadays given back to nature and photo's of the engine confirm that. It's in a very rusted condition almost completely overgrown by trees and shrubbery now. But it is still there, and so it can still be preserved. You told us in your video's about the little diesel you saved from scrap last month that you found it amazing that something considered part of the first era of preservation could still be done in 2023. But I think there are far more chances of saving an engine these days then might be at first thought, because not all preservation projects from bygone eras ended in success, and the engines that were a part of those efforts might still need saving now, like poor 1077. Sadly, I am but a poor history student in the Netherlands, so I can't save her myself (yet), but I do hope there is someone who might find her again and decide that she finally deserves a loving, caring home.

@samk4128

11 ай бұрын

Hope farm seems to be next to Sellindge Showground. I can spot one loco and several carriages.

@oldtechnobodycaresabout

11 ай бұрын

​​@@samk4128 live near sellinge, next time I go past I'll have a look and see if I can see anything from the road or nearby public area

@martynbinkyboy2026

11 ай бұрын

😊

@nectafarious8842

9 ай бұрын

It ain't there...@@oldtechnobodycaresabout

Only came across this video by chance and enjoyed it. You have yourself a sub.

I've always had a fascination with Railroads. I grew up a short distance from a large hump yard. I got to go up into one of the control towers where they operated the switching and braking as a kid. There were still a few steam engines back then. The restored Union Pacific "Big Boy" comes to Omaha occasionally. There is a Big Boy on static display in Omaha also. I've gone with the grand kids to get a rally close look at how it's made. Thanks for the video.

You can keep that pacific, give me that aveling any day. What a lovely thing

Sir Vincent is a chunky little locomotive with a decent overhang on each end :) It's like the steam-powered version of Alf from the Talyllyn Railway :) And Lady Patricia is a very pretty locomotive :) Most of our large steam locomotives across the pond are black, so it's nice seeing one that is a bright color. I'm so glad the owner let you drive it Lawrie! :)

I think for Lady Patricia 'Majestic' springs to mind and she looks amazing in LNER colours. The little Aveling and Porter had me chuckling hearing it reminded me of Ivor the Engine, and after several G&T's found myself making the noises....................... Oh dear.......

Ah that'll be David Buck's home in Berkshire. Glad he finally got it running (although cocks need a look at perhaps). Great stuff and that Aveling and Porter is always great to see running, quirk on wheels. If anyone wants to know how you afford something like this in your back garden go print 35mm for the film industry back in the 70s! 😉🤣

@ScotSteam47

11 ай бұрын

Also owns Mayflower!

@richardharrold9736

11 ай бұрын

He sold Mayflower and Steam Dreams to that fascist twunt Hosking last year.

@evan12697

11 ай бұрын

@@richardharrold9736dare we ask

@LukeAlfordUKsteam

11 ай бұрын

​@@richardharrold9736Hosking who only ever runs his engines with a diesel to shove on the back.

@richardharrold9736

11 ай бұрын

@@evan12697 Hosking is Laurence Fox's main financial backer/enabler. Without Hosking's millions, he'd be nowhere. The amount Hosking spent on Fox's quixotic London mayoral campaign would have put all of his unrestored locos back in steam.

Oh wow, forget all the other stuff, like bigger gauge & massive size. The GREEN (Pacific style wheel 4-6-2 arrangement) loco - has a strobogrammatic number A Strobogrammatic number - is a number whose numeral is rotationally symmetric, so that it appears the same when rotated 180 degrees. ie: 181 ; 96 (& as well as the other use of 6 & 9) ; 102501 etc. The number 91016 is a brilliant one for such an impressive loco. Something to remember it by I suppose - it's "Strobogrammatic Loco Number" 🚂

I can't imagine cool it would be to have your own little railroad and especially that big engine, but I couldn't handle only being able to go back and forth for a few hundred feet. 😫 That's like only ever letting a horse run within a ring! 😂

It's a beautiful locomotive. It shows that it is well cared for.

Sir Vincent: full steam ahead! Lady Patricia: I can't even go that slowly!

Reminds me a lot of the German 'Baureihe 01'.

@esajuhanirintamaki965

6 ай бұрын

Die deutsche BR 01 war als Vorbild für Maschinen-Technische Büro beim Finnische Eisenbahn-Vervaltung. Natürlich in Wirklichkeit auch. Da war eine menge sehr erfahrene Finnische Lok-Ingenieurs. Ich hab' einige Projekt-Zeichnungen dort gesehen. Einer war als wie eine 2'D oder 4-8-0 nach französischen Beispiel.

I must confess, every time I see somebody running around oiling various locations, whether its here or on Tornado, my first thought is "ha ha, 611 go BRRRRRRRRR". That locomotive is almost entirely mechanically lubricated. Roller bearings all around. She's a bit shorter and narrower than Lady P, but still a veritable giant in her own right, especially compared to pretty much anything native to the British Isles. An absolutely majestic thoroughbred, very much a masterpiece on par with Duke of Gloucester.

I love the level crossing wigwags moonlighting as a buffer-stop light, and the "XC Car Stop" board on the headshunt 😂😂 Whoever owns this collection, I like the cut of their jib!

Whoa, it actually big! I saw a video on YT somewhere of this engine, and people were riding in the tender but I honestly didn't believe it was big at all, I thought it might have been a similar size to Flying Scotsman but oh my gosh it actually is a very big machine, I'm speechless!

I did not expect feeding the big loco euro pallets to start it. A very nice throwback to lighting the boiler at home. We have big steam locomotives here in Bulgaria, but they only run like once a year. It's always nice to see kept or refurbished steamer locomotives. :)

The timber feed for the locos ; very pallet-able 😊

This is an incredible video! I can't begin to imagine the work or cost of having such fun!!

around the wheels, they look like dogs faces with droopy ears 🥰🥰🥰

The Greatest Garden Railway of all time - with the Biggest Working Steam Lawrie's Mechanic love louis shirley

Doesn't matter if it's a European or American steam locomotive. They are all beautiful alive living machines and beautiful to watch them move with such grace and beauty 😊😊

@lmm

2 ай бұрын

Excatly!

Hopefully that big ol girl will get a bit more room to run someday.

I absolutely love sir Vincent! Thanks for another amazing video!

What a great video I thoroughly enjoyed it and that locomotive is a beast

@lmm

15 күн бұрын

Thank you very much

Thanks Lawrie, Adrian and team. That was indeed a great day out. I'm not Scottish, but I winced when you described the Barclay as an "English industrial". Hopefully all our Scottish friends won't be too upset by that.

@lmm

11 ай бұрын

Did I? Oh dear. I didn't catch myself there

@derekp2674

11 ай бұрын

@@lmm Never mind sir. And if it ever worked in England, then it was also an English industrial. It is also easy to make mistakes when you are working hard, taking on duties you were not expecting. Then again, didn't you just post a video saying that it was good to get loads of comments as soon as video drops?

@lmm

11 ай бұрын

@@derekp2674 It really does help. What's annoying is I caught myself elsewhere in the video and corrected to British. I am annoyed 😂

@derekp2674

11 ай бұрын

@@lmm That's the trouble with publishing anything. There will always be things we'd like to change once the item is out. I just peer reviewed an English language conference paper from a team of German authors. They'd done a great job but I still got them on one single spelling mistake.

What a wonderful place, it’s a bit of a shame that Lady Patricia can’t really stretch her wheels on that short length of track, any possibilities of getting her length of track extended?

@Rural_racer

11 ай бұрын

If you have a look on Google maps, you would see why it's very unlikely

@fraz3alpha

11 ай бұрын

Where do I need to look on Google maps to find it?

@nectafarious8842

9 ай бұрын

Fifield. @@fraz3alpha

Thanks Lawrie, great to see & hear the different types! 🙏🙏

I’m very envious! But you are doing an amazing thing here Lawrie. Great channel and videos. Bravo 👏

You light the fires the same way we do at the nymr. We put a 4 inch cover of coal in first ,then Rags soaked in paint thinners . On top of that we use old wooden pallets. It takes about 5 or 6 minutes before the coal starts to burn. On our big engines that’s what we call a warming fire. We leave that fire in them over night to gently warm the engine through.

What a fantastic opportunity for you Lawrie, as always your joy and enthusiasm shine through.

What a fantastic video lawrie! All the locos are beautiful and that Finnish loco she is huge makes flying scotsman and all of the other Operational steam locomotives in the uk look like models!

That's really AWESOME, FANTASTIC 🙂👍 A wonderful video, I enjoyed it very, very much, thanks a lot for sharing 🙂

What a beautiful locomotive!! And she’s a miniature railway machine!! Absolutely gorgeous!!

Happy to know that steam is still alive and at work keep them boys roll'in

Amazing engine, let alone for a Garden railway...wow. Just a bit bigger than mine...!!!

Excellent video; looks like you had a good time

What a beauty that is. So impresive

That Finnish engine may look big comapred to British engines (I'd like to see this next to a 9F or Duchess Of Hamilton), but it's quite small compared to the American locomotives I'm used to like ATSF 3415, which is also a Pacific. VR 1016 reminds me of CB&Q 5639 at the Colorado railroad Museum, which towers over the narrow gauge trains. 35:26 what a lovely whistle Lady Patricia has!

@andrewyoung749

11 ай бұрын

its not really much bigger than the duchess the vr1 is shorter and weighs slightly less-loco and tender-but looks massively tall and wide), which is bigger than the 9f, but it develops rather less power than either. vr hr1-25000lbs tractive effort/9f 39500ish/duchess 40000lbs. so the vr hr1 is (slightly)bigger than a duchess but less powerful than a duchess/a 9f/an A1-2-3-4,/a princess/br std 8 and even a br std 7 all of which are smaller some like the br 7 really quite a lot smaller.. the hr1 is very pretty and i keep looking at no 1009s page to see what theyre up to(they ran two excellent tours earlier this year but they sprang both of them with like 2 weeks notice lol) but vis mechanically/performance id suggest size/power wise the hr1 is pretty unimpressive really.

I was thinking that's a very un-british tender on lady Patricia. Made sense when I saw the sub text!

I absolutely love sir Vincent! Thanks for another amazing video!. I absolutely love sir Vincent! Thanks for another amazing video!.

25:02 is a nice shot of locomotives in the foreground with an airliner in the distance. Old workhorses maintained for love, I doubt many airliners will generate such affection.

I love the sound of Sir Vincent ,it's so relaxing.yes they are all brilliant but it's the sound they make

I managed to spot myself in the video! great to see you!

@lmm

11 ай бұрын

It was a great day!

What an amazing thing to be a part of, and what a gorgeous engine

The Sir Vincent is a dear little loco - so cute with his flywheel and little red transit wheels

Wow, that looks like a delight! And that shot of you looking up at the top of the drivers really gets the scale of this beast across -- as do the photos of you in the cab, after seeing you in the other locomotives. It must have felt like being in a workshop! Sir Vincent is a delightful little contraption, too.

@ReggieArford

11 ай бұрын

Is it just me, or is the broad gauge track a bit higher than the standard gauge track? 6" - 12"?

Perfect day and idyllic setting !. Locos and stock fabulous. Thanks mate. Dave. PS Big init !

Wow what a fantastic private railway. I absolutely love all 3 Locomotives. I have never seen such a Great Big Steam Engine like Lady Patricia which I would love a 'OO Gauge' model of for my own model railway. I look forward to seeing where Lawrie goes to next.😊😊

Beautiful locos glad to see there is a proper circle of track for the narrows and hopefully they will be able to extend the standard gauge out a bit more to run that beautiful pacific more

Everything that you liked on the Pacific, from everything being on the outside to having running lights for the motion, is all pretty standard on US steam

Extraordinary!! Congratulations!!! Leo de Argentina

what a relaxing video! great work!

Wow! Sir Vincent is an amazing little beast. love all the motion it produces. Slightly reminds me of a SHay or Climax with all the flailing about and uniqueness.

@vonyinzer

11 ай бұрын

Hearing Lady Patricia's stack talk make me really want o see her have more track to stretch her legs a bit more.. she sounds like she wants to RUN!

@brianfraser2495

11 ай бұрын

You could also include the Heisler - another small wheel geared locomotive.

How was your morning?. Excellent , everything is on fire.

Amazing locomotive. The little locomotives were also great locomotives.

Excellent 👍

Yes. I. Like this esteem. Inegin. Lovely you looking after this sir thank. You am from. Sri. Lankan frined

0:00 funny how your light coloured legs almost perfectly line up with the patch of sand in the background

This is awesome lawrie❤❤❤

This is now what garden railway should be like, i.hope someone make standard gauge line inspired from railway layout

I'm happy to see that people like the results of Finnish enginuity, also Lady Patricia looks splendid in that LNER applegreen livery.

Beautiful! …quite a day there, Bucky…Mmm Mmm!! Quit a day!

Oh wow, you were in our neighbourhood! Thanks for the video Lawrie!

Wow. What a train set. Love the livery. Those of us with OO gauge in the back bedroom are green with envy.

Incredible Experience Beautiful Work Adorable Big Engines Such a Fun Nerdy Dream of an Experience

@lmm

2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Amazing machines, thanks for sharing....Although not a huge fan of seeing bits of wood with nails thrown in but get doesn't really effect anything. I would love to give places like this big bits of land to play on but its not cheap

Beautiful loco those Pacific so great 👍👍

Iv enjoyed that video very much , I love steam, the engineering marvels that invented steam power. The first mechanical transport.

Impressive flywheel on Sir Vincent !

This looks like a right whackin' good way to spend a day ! I'd love to learn how to fire and run these locomotives

Vídeo muito legal 😃👍

This is amazing I’m so jealous, I would love to visit.

Pretty big garden railway great stuff

@lmm

10 ай бұрын

Amazing railway.

Amazing! I want one in my back yard to start up & play with. Maybe run a couple hundred feet of track? Yes please.

We had a lot of fun. thanks.

The engine didn't look all that large to me, until there were some people next to it!

I discovered this garden railway by accident, by flying over my own area with Google maps. It’s only a short bicycle ride away. They have a “funday” once a year, so was able to visit it. Pretty cool.

I think my wife’s former boss (now deceased) knew the owner. Tony also owned steam locos, mostly traction engines but also one rather well-known Gresley A3, usually depicted in the same apple green.

This engine is absolutely massive. You are right. I mean, Jesus Christ! The wheels are taller than a grown man! Though it is lovely to see this loco run. Now we just need that blue Swedish engine with a cone shaped smoke box to run again.

Fantasic garden railway. And a great idea for a small shelf railway. Its interesting on how big the 5 ft gauge loco is, and i realize its perspective, but my provinces steam loco CN 6060, a 4-8-4, "mountain type" running on 4'81/2" rails, is even larger.

@cr10001

11 ай бұрын

Well the HR1 is very similar in size to the A1 Tornado, a LMS Coronation, or a Merchant Navy. Not really surprising that a North American loco is larger. What really shakes me is that a South African 25NC on 3'6" ('narrow') gauge is BIGGER than any of those. (excluding the CNR of course)

@andrewyoung749

11 ай бұрын

@@cr10001 look up how big a EAR 59 is on 3ft3 gauge track...